Especially if you’re old enough to have loved Ulf Samuelsson. He became a folk hero in Pittsburgh before he had finished his first game after coming over in a trade from the Hartford Whalers in March of 1992.

My brother Paul called him Jack Lambert on skates and it stuck. Jack Lambert takes us to the way-back of Pittsburgh sports but Phaneuf is every bit as much Jack as Ulf ever was.

Phaneuf’s not too popular in Pittsburgh right now because of the nasty hit he put on Penguins’ winger Bryan Rust in Game 2.

And, by the way, anybody who has played hockey – and there are a few people working at the NHL office who have – knows that Phaneuf could have avoided hitting Rust in the head. If they were really serious about reducing head injuries there would have been a major penalty and maybe a suspension.

–The old goaltender did pretty well in Game 2, didn’t he? No not Marc-Andre Fleury. Yeah, he threw the 10th playoff shutout of his career and is 11th on the all time list in that category, but he was the young guy.

Senators goalie Craig Anderson will turn 36 the day after Game 4. Fleury, who will be 33 in November is the second youngest of the Final 4 goaltenders. Anaheim Ducks’ goalie John Gibson, the kid from Whitehall, turns 24 in July.

Pekka Rinne who has the best goals against average and save percentage (overrated stats, I know) in the playoffs will turn 36 in November.

The point here, of course, is that the Penguins shouldn’t feel like they need to move Fleury because of his age.

Henrik Lundqvist, who had a good post season with the Rangers, turned 35 in March.

–Fleury’s given up one goal in his last nine regulation periods and stopped 85 of the last 87 shots he’s seen. This is the playoffs. That’s ridiculous.

–Hockey is a pretty rough sport. Wouldn’t it make sense to allow NHL teams to have players in reserve, who wouldn’t dress for the game, but could replace a player who is knocked out of a game with an injury?

–If you ever wondered why athletes and coaches often find it hard to take the media seriously, all you had to do was listen to the exchange between Senators coach Guy Boucher and a credentialed questioner at his Game 2 post game press conference.

Q: “Lots of people on Twitter were saying it was an ugly, boring game…